{"id":294,"date":"2010-09-26T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2010-09-26T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T06:03:01","slug":"294","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/294.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve seen a drama in a movie theater in the past month you might have seen the horrible trailer for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1285016\/\">The Social Network<\/a><\/em>, aka &#8220;The Facebook Movie.&#8221; The trailer is a mixed up collection of scenes showing people living the high life, being dorks, and yelling at each other. There aren&#8217;t any <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/AudienceSurrogate\">audience surrogate<\/a> or clear protagonist characters, elements that help draw the viewer into the story. The whole thing seems to ride on the Facebook name, pandering to the haters.<\/p>\n<p>The movie&#8230; is doing really well at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the-social-network\/\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> right now. 100% tomatoes, with 14 reviewers so far. Sure the usual movie industry plants must be in the mix, but there are some actual reviewers of renown (marked &#8220;Top Critic&#8221; by the site) in the mix. The comparisons with other movies are what is most fascinating. Reviewers are saying <em>The Social Network<\/em> is comparable <em>The Godfather<\/em>, <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>, <em>Fight Club<\/em>, <em>Rashomon<\/em>, and <em>The Graduate<\/em>. It&#8217;s crazy! I still won&#8217;t see it in the theaters though, I have a snobbish rule about not paying to see a movie in a theater if it doesn&#8217;t have robots, explosions, or anything that warrants a giant screen.<\/p>\n<p>Eh, I&#8217;m putting this under anthropology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve seen a drama in a movie theater in the past month you might have seen the horrible trailer for The Social Network, aka &#8220;The Facebook Movie.&#8221; The trailer is a mixed up collection of scenes showing people living the high life, being dorks, and yelling at each other&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/294.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}